{"id":34095,"date":"2025-08-10T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34095"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:19:13","slug":"august-whats-on-in-abingdon-addendum-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34095","title":{"rendered":"August What\u2019s On in Abingdon \u2013 Addendum 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen I put together the August What\u2019s On, an important detail and some events got missed.<\/p>\n

First, the detail from The Bun Throwing Competition, which is part of the VJ Day celebrations at the Party on the Pitch on August 16, Abingdon Rugby Club, Lambrick Way, 11am\u20134pm, teams to register by emailing Abingdonrblvevj@gmail.com. What I didn\u2019t mention is that the winning team of four will be invited to join the civic dignitaries on the rooftop of the County Hall for the next official bun throwing.<\/p>\n

Unlike the previous two World Bun Throwing Championships, this is a team event where not 1 but 4 throwers will be invited to the rooftop. In 2012, the winning individual throw was 57.80 metres, and in 2016, the winning individual throw was 156 feet 4 inches. (The photo from the 2012 event shows Richard Gottfried, who has attended every bun throwing since 1980 and writes the World of Bun Throwing blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The events missed were:
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\nSteve\u2019s \u201cExotic\u201d Garden Open Day \u2013 Steve has opened his garden most years since 2014, raising money for charity. He\u2019s transformed an ordinary backyard into a stunningly exotic garden.
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\nThe Family Fun at Abingdon Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I put together the August What\u2019s On, an important detail and some events got missed. First, the detail from The Bun Throwing Competition, which is part of the VJ Day celebrations at the Party on the Pitch on August 16, Abingdon Rugby Club, Lambrick Way, 11am\u20134pm, teams to register by emailing Abingdonrblvevj@gmail.com. What I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}